Friday, 11 January 2013

A Note to OROGs - Archive Access

     We are finally doing a bit of tweaking and upgrading, trying to drag ourselves up to the early 1800s as best we can.    This particular note is just to advise all readers that we have brought all of our ancient writings that were recently uncovered in a cave in Judea back to the Republic of Texas.
  A Bedouin goat herder found the cache, and he retrieved them all just before his camels and goats ate all that wonderful history.
    The shepherd shook me down for three Euros....he would not take the 1,000,000,000,ooo dollar platinum coin, because he said that it  had an image of Obama on it.   Nobody seems to want it.   Now, where did I put it?   Hey....Camel....come back here!!   Mohammed..Mohammed!  Wait!  Your camel ate my 1 trillion dollar Obamacoin!!!!  Wait, Mohammed...Camel...wait....!


Unknown Person Trying to Loot Our Archives from Secret Cave
 
 
     Oh, well.   If you all will check on down and to the right, you will find a chronograph, and by clicking on, you will be able to know more or less where the  particular blog entry you for which you might be searching.  Or, an OROG can just page through and be overwhelmed by the modest brilliance of it all.   There is quite a bit of somewhat funny stuff....a bit of profundity....a few jewels in the  gravel...a few sparkles of gold in the sand.
 
It's open to you and thanks for the interest, as usual.
El Gringo Viejo




Secret Messages Between Fathers and Sons

We have noticed that when my son is eating at his parents' table, he always eats everything that his beat-up old father makes and seems to genuinely be interested in the preparations and procedures.  So every now and then we talk about the fine points of preparing goodies that seem to please palates and result in being skinny, no matter how much is eaten.  Truth be known, El Gringo Viejo learns as much or more from him than visa-versasrev-asiv.
     So, we sent the poor lad an addenda to the last set of notes that were transferred telephonically.  This will give him something to use instead of a sedative to-night.  It is also in keeping with the purpose of this blogsite.  We really do mean to keep it somewhat eclectic, even when the deranged Democrat nuttpolitik people run out of the asylums and start raving in front of the microphones....flooding us with material about which to comment.
 
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 The secret communique' went as follows:
 
     Anyway, with the smoothie thing...it is all like a batting stance. I would urge against mixing a cat's hairball, corn starch, bacon grease, garbanzos with rancid buttermilk fungus and old mushrooms....and calling it a "smoothie", but any reasonable intuitive notion is valid.
       For instance, I have had success by throwing in freshly diced strawberries....blueberries....and of course, canteloupe, honeydew, and wassermellon.   Oranges, Mangoes, and Bananas are basic building blocks...along with sour cream and/or yogurt....just make sure that it is not "lite" or "fat-free" or "lo-cal" or the chemistry will not work in the mix or in the gizzard.
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IT DOES NOT HAVE TO LOOK LIKE THIS.  THIS IS PAELLA.  YOU CAN, FOR A HOT
OPTION, POUR IT OVER WHITE OR MEXICAN/SPANISH RICE.  YOU CAN USE OKRA
OR ONE OF THOSE REALLY FINE CENTRAL TEXAS SAUSAGES IN THE OVER ALL
MIX.  GUMBOES AND PAELLAS INCLUDE ALL NATURE OF THINGS, EVEN POULTRY.
FOR THE COLD SERVICE, ALSO CONSIDER ENGLISH PEAS, ASPERAGUS, GREEN
ONION (fine sliced) OR A MYRIAD OF OTHER THINGS.  THE NOSE AND PALATE
AND GOOD REASON SHOULD BE EMPLOYED, NOT YOUR FATHER' S RULES.
CONSIDER THYME AND GUMBO FILE' FOR YOUR SEAFOOD SMOOTHY, EVEN
A BIT OF CHILI POWDER....EXPERIMENT...IF NO CATS SHOW UP, YOU'RE
DOING SOMETHING WRONG, PROBABLY.  IF NO DOGS SHOW UP, THEN
IT'S FOR SURE YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.
  
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     Tricky is something like a seafood smoothie. Quality shrimp, oysters, mussels, and clams, mixed with a quarter cup of lime juice, with an 1/8th of a cup of decent vodka or tequila or rum (only one of those three), small handful of cilantro (90% leaf), three hard shakes of dried dill or one large fresh sprig, an 1/8th cup each of diced tomatoe, chopped celery, chopped white onion, purple cabbage (optional), and one tablespoon of minced garlic, and one serrano pepper (optional) w/seeds removed. Use a couple of tablespoons of EVOO and a good, straight clear vinegar.
     The liquids of the meats involved....here is where it becomes tricky, and very easy at the same time....should be mixed as you wish, using one, several, or all as you wish, to your taste or Carolina's taste, for instance, (This works, believe me). Set back one-third of the meats to keep as whole. Throw the other two-thirds into the blender. Throw in enough liquid, including the hooch, EVOO, vinegar, and lime juice to make contact with the meats and the dill and cilantro all the way up. Make sure there are no cats within six square city blocks.
BLEND VERY BRIEFLY...Only seven (7) seconds. This will make a magnificent anti-cancer, high protien, and very flavourful gruel.
PLEASE NOTE: Your father will eat/drink all this without any cooking. You delicate pipples might wish to STEAM the meats (take care not to turn them into rubber...steam under high steam for one minute...or 90 seconds....no more....have the water boiling really hard before putting the seafood OVER the water and not in it...basket or colander required, obviously). After subjecting the ingredients to the blender...very briefly....you can add the reserved whole meat ingredients...the oysters, shrimp, clams, and mussels....also consider at this stage a bit of octupus or squid rings, VERY LIGHTLY STEAMED...so as to avoid making very fine rubber bands. This means a salad fork or nice spoon will be in order.
 
      This is well-served in a LARGE Brandy snifter, or a HUGE Margarita cocktail glass. With guests, a neat-o spriglet of dill or plume of celery. At night, with guests and with warning or invitation, you can offer to "strengthen" the gruel with a bit more of the same hooch used in the original preparation. About 1/4th of a cup should be more than enough. The serving size can be up to 3 cups as a meal replacement, or 2 cups as an apertif or after dinner or as a free-standing light meal. Necessary additional seasonings in the opinion of this writer are horseradish, freshly ground black pepper, tabasco, and I have even added chunk fish (trout, flounder, ocean perch, or red snapper is best...only salt water fish!)
This is sent just as a backing to the notion of "Let's go jump off the cliff. If Superman can fly, so can we." And, it's true. This recipe will work for seafood monsters like your father. A week of it will probably cause rashes and all kinds of histamine problems....but once a fortnight is very, very "healthy"....(I hate that word)..  I have served it to clients and two of them ate almost a quart each.    To catalogue this in your brain's Dewey Decimal System, think in terms of...really good gumb0es...and/or paellas...It can be served very chilled, or you can warm it up and serve it over nice hot steamy rice...very flexible.
So there. Put all this in your pipe and send it to Santa Claus!
El Gringo Viejo  

Thursday, 10 January 2013

Her Majesty and Mr. Cameron in London duke it out with the imitation Hillary in Buenos Aires.   The one who waits for the Ghost of Evita to instruct her about the Plan of Battle to recover Las Malvinas Ocupadas and simultaneously save her Gran Revolucion Marxista- Cambio y Esperanza para todos! receives this unkind reminder of the facts of the case against any Argentine claim against the Falklands, South Sandwich, and South Shetlands.
 
 
 
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Falklands row: Islanders respond in detail to points raised by Cristina Kirchner

Falkland Islanders have responded in detail to the provocative letter from Argentine president Cristina Kirchner, published by The Guardian today, demanding that Britain hands over the Falklands. The response, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, is below

Stanley, January 3rd, 2013
     It is disappointing that today the Government of Argentina is once again ignoring the rights and wishes of the Falkland Islands people. The open letter sent by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to David Cameron is not only historically inaccurate, but fails to mention the most significant aspect of our recent history – the attempt by the Argentine Government to take away our home by military force when they invaded thirty years ago. The people of the Falkland Islands, who for nine generations have lived and worked these lands, would like to take the opportunity to clarify some points raised by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
     The Falkland Islands had no indigenous population prior to their settlement by our ancestors – the Islands were unoccupied. Argentina claims the Falkland Islands form part of the province of Tierra del Fuego – an area that was not claimed as a part of the Republic of Argentina until after two generations of Falkland Islanders had been born and raised in our Islands.
      There is no truth to Argentine claims that a civilian population was expelled by Britain in 1833. The people who were returned to Argentina were an illegal Argentine military garrison, who had arrived three months earlier. The civilian population in the Islands, who had sought permission from Britain to live there, were invited to stay. All but two of them, with their partners, did so.
     We are not an implanted population. Our community has been formed through voluntary immigration and settlement over the course of nearly two hundred years. We are a diverse society, with people from around the world having made the Islands their home
      As a modern, self-governing Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom, we enjoy a relationship based on the shared ideals of democracy, freedom and self-reliance. We are not a colony of the United Kingdom; we are a British Overseas Territory by choice, which is something entirely different. We are not governed by Britain: we are entirely self-governing, except for defence and foreign affairs. We democratically elect our Legislative Assembly Members; they are chosen by the people of the Falkland Islands to represent them and to determine and administer our own policies and legislation. In March we will be holding a referendum on our political status, so that as a people we can make our views heard in a clear, democratic and incontestable way.
 
The Honourable Dick Sawle, Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Island

 



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We suggest taking advantage of some of the Telegraph's articles made available above adjacent. 
El Gringo Viejo,  standing vigilant to-night.

One if by Land
      and Two if by sea,

Ever vigilant
      lest Barry disarm me!

Graphological Analysis

El Gringo Viejo has a bit of experience, via his oldest brother the Professor, in the art and science of graphology.  Some say that it is a bogus science, more akin to parlour games.  Others liken the pursuit to something akin to palm reading and gypsy women looking at a client's future in a crystal ball.
     Whatever the truth, the oldest brother....the professor....finally determined that it was a very interesting exercise and that he had found it to be quite accurate.   He was deceptive enough that he would say things that were complementary to the subject even when he found indications of character flaws and/or desires to cover up what the subject thought or believed to be horrid sins of his/her past.
 
     In the case of Mr. Lew, what leaps out at a person, if he uses the books from which the  professor instructed his younger brother, is the signature of a person who is consummately lazy and totally disposed to deception and mendaciousness.   If graphology has any accuracy, it is indicating that Lew fits right in.   He is a perfect fit for the chair of another lazy mendacious cheat, good ole' TurboTax Timmy Gietner.
 



                                                                              
Lew's Signature Scribble, showing sloth and mendacity.  Oddly, the thrust of the final line indicates a willingness to see something through, once started.   All loops but one fall below the mid-line of the signature, which would seem to indicate that the signer has no restraints about working "off the record" or in a deceptive or devious manner.    The one large loop towards the end is suggestive that he has a guiding presence, perhaps a mother or sister, or someone who is gone and missed.   All of that might or might not be parlour-game jibberish.  But, there is one thing for sure.  Anyone who enters such a rubric as a signature is WEIRD.
 
 
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  So, we shall leave with this head scratcher.  It was so striking that we could not resist the comment.    As always, we appreciate each OROG's time and kind attention.
El Gringo Viejo




Liberal/Progressive Solutions: Pathway to perdition

     Eric Holder is a marxist weasel.   Just like Barak Hussein Obama.  Barak "reaches out" to what are popularly called "hispanics"....a new group of recently found people who are all exactly alike and required to vote in favour of "hispanic issues" because, according to Barak Obama, they are stupid proles who are in debt to Democrats for having "given"  "them" everything.

     So strange.   What is an "hispanic issue"?    Whis is an "African-American issue?".  Is there such a thing as "stay tuned to the African-American weather report"?   To the Democrat National Socialist Workers' Party these people are all the same.  The Party demands and requires that they all be the same.   Activists in the Democrat National Socialist Workers' Party state that a Latin or Black African ancestried person who develops into a conservative or even (perish the thought) a Republican....then he is either no longer a member of said ethnic or racial group, but he is also an Uncle Tom, a House n****r, or Tio Taco, etc. etc. Their words, not mine.
     But, here's the deal.  Obama cares for the oppressed, dark, funny looking people.   Especially the "hispanics".   He doesn't know what the word hispanic means, nor does the Obsolete Press, nor do most of the Democrat type "hispanic" voters....but Obama and the Obsolete Press are absolutely certain that the "hispanics" belong in the Democrat Socialist Workers' Party, because "we give them things that are important to hispanics".   A path to the dream act.  A path into the House of Mirrors at the Carnival.  A zircon ring.  A zircon ring that turns out to be glass.
     AND, then we overlook that Eric Holder and his immediate subordinate thugs had no problem illegally trading very potent firearms directly into the hands of horridly satanic people and that such trading resulted in the deaths of.....to this date....almost 440 people who happened to be Mexicans.....like...you know...."hispanics". 
       These are only the innocent and nobly involved who we are counting.   We are  not counting the cockroaches who have wound up killing each other in turf battles and score-settling.   These 440 are people caught in cross-fires...men, women, and children.   Soldiers and Naval Infantrymen locked in mortal combat.   Honest to fairly honest cops.

      The improvements in the situation in Mexico is not the issue in this blog-entry.  The issue is that Eric Holder, with certain knowledge of the present holder of the office of President of the United States and Valerie Jerrod, intentionally fed weapons that could be readily upgraded to automatics directly into the hands of  cartel operatives.   Their hope was to have Americans and/or American police officers, border patrol, and other state and/or national police officials shot and killed by people using guns that had been "purchased at loosely regulated gun stores in border states (their words)".   Armed with such righteous indignation, the corrupt Obama - Holder team could then say..."THE TIME HAS COME!!! "   And we would have been way down the road to private firearm seizures nationwide, starting with dealers and the ever so compliant sycophant Obama-big-toe-kissing retailers such as WalMart.

      There has never been any recognition of the innocent or the noble who have been shot down by this worthless programme.  Bush's administration had a similar programme that was co-ordinated with the Mexican Army.  The programme broke down when the Army detected that the cartel people had figured out that the firearms were "chipped", and the cartel thugs were removing the tracking chips.   That was the "Wide Receiver" program that Obama lied and said they had inherited from Bush's failed policy.   The Bush-era "Wide Receiver" was suspended two and a half years before the Obama regime was installed.   It ended immediately upon receiving knowledge that the chips had been detected.   Obama and Holder lied, as do all marxists.
    When a conservative is mistaken the left calls that a "lie".  When a marxist lies, the left calls that "the truth".     And there we had it.    No Obsolete Press outrage.  No questioning.  Nothing to see here, move on along.   Four or five hundred dead Meskins?   Well, there's more where they came from....and that is truly how Obama and his staff people see "them".   Especially during the time where there was a rightwing President in Mexico who was continuing the disassembly of socialism in Mexico and who, in spite of what Reuters and AP say, conducted a very successful war against the utter vermin of the Planet.

     So there we have it.   A real toopher.   We have an offensive against private firearm ownership, and nobody who amounts to anything gets hurt.  To bad it didn't work out as planned, but we can wait for another mass shooting...just so long as it's not done by a Muslim Islmamist jihadist, United States Army Officer shouting "Allah Akbar!"....as he shoots down, oddly, soldiers who have no guns.   We have homosexual and female soldiers heading for the front.  And we also are really good, kinder, and gentler and all because we have soldiers who have no guns.   And besides, "workplace violence" is a lot different from all those killings that might be going to be done by white people who have guns stored up in their houses....there with their Bibles.

     We have a real problem here, Houston....and Chicago....and New Orleans....and Atlanta....and Baltimore....and Los Angeles....and Memphis....and Miami-Dade....in one year (2012) there are 3,000 dead in the named cities alone (think how many there are nation wide)....killed by gangs, criminals, thugs, and deranged people who should be in asylums, and drunks...not one gun discharged by itself.  Each firearm was discharged by a person born into complete public assistance and raised without catechism.   People without souls, birthed to us by the Democrat National Socialist cradle to the grave welfare plan for the use as cannon fodder and low-information voting.


El Gringo Viejo

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

The times call for a brief, new Conservative Credo

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CONSERVATIVE CREED
 for Times of Peril
 
 
    This is written in the year of our Lord, 2013 in response to the ever deteriorating social, political, and economic situation presently besetting the United States of America.  It is one person's call into the darkness.  It is not meant to be a marching order, or a call to arms, or anything beyond a declaration of a very few basic points that the responsible can use as an encouragement to their motivation in Defense of Liberty.   It is useless, during these days, to try to convince those parasitic elements of our culture that they should turn from their ways and enjoy the risks of failure and the exhilaration of the simple successes that come from moving and acting without undue constraint imposed by an increasingly rapacious, arbitrary, and totalitarian central government.   We must simply re-double our own efforts and by so doing, perhaps inspire others who have given up hope of National Redemption, so that they might join the Good Fight and re-establish what was once the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.
 
 
THIS WE BELIEVE:
 
      I.          This credo is meant for all free-standing men and women.  There is no differentiation based on anything that has to do with age or race or ethnicity.   All are called, if willing, if they are old enough to think critically.  There is no age requirement, and there are no dues.   Those who wish can join this agreement freely and without cost.
  
    II.           There is no religious denomination, nor is there any religion, endorsed one over the other in this Creed.  The words that follow, however, are guided by the Samaritan Rule, the Golden Rule, and the Beatitudes as delivered on a hillside during an earlier, equally troubled time.   Any believer in any notion of divinity, cosmic guiding intelligence, or angelic combat with satanic forces will feel comfortable using these precepts, and the agnostic is welcomed among us.
 
    III.         We believe in the higher condition that is represented by self-sufficiency, that is not supported by the intervention of public assistance of any kind.   We believe that all charity should and must be privately administered, so as to avoid the establishment of immense, self-perpetuating bureaucracies that are dependent upon the dependent for their survival.    Therefore, we shall endorse, support, and volunteer with the Salvation Army and like groups and work towards the gradual and steady elimination of public assistance until it no longer contaminates the culture.
 
   IV.          We believe that if investment is needed in the development or maintenance of industry that it should be done by the private sector.  We eschew the notion that the central government can or should attempt to stimulate what they feel to be the proper path of  industrial and/or commercial activity.   It is more sensible to leave businesses and corporations untaxed and thereby more capable to invest in innovation and/or refinement of existing procedures so as to produce more wealth, wages, progress, stability, and lucrative worthwhile employment.   We withhold our support from corporations that volunteer to join the dole meted out by the central government.
 
     V.         We believe, in keeping with the quest for self-reliance, that all who choose to defend themselves against violent criminal intent instead of relying on public agencies to protect them have the right and even obligation to be their own first line of defense.   Therefore the possession and use of a firearm(s) for self-defense, for general protection of self and/or other possible victims of wantonness and depravity, for hunting, for hanging on the wall for decoration, or any morally correct or inoffensive purpose is a Sacred Right, not to be abridged by any government, especially the central government.
 
     VI.        We hold that it is self-evident that socialist, racist elements conspired during the first half of the 20th Century (and before), to carve out the American Negro Race and to do all possible to direct them into a New Slavery of government dependence.  We can point to the peculiar union and association with agents of the Communist Party USA, Margaret Sanger's progressives, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the Ku Klux Klan during the period of 1915 through the early 1930s ( http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/KKK-and-WCTU-Partners-in-Prohibition.html ).  
   We further  hold that anyone with a basic understanding of sociology knows that multigenerational birthing of babies who have no known father, present on a continuing basis, will produce soulless monsters.  It is also true that the taking of a religious people, whose anthems are an integral part of the American Fabric, and prohibiting those anthems and any other Christian or Judaic hymns, psalms, and anthems from the public or scholastic theatre of human endeavour, has produced cultural disaster.   The removal of all spiritual guidance from the public school system is to be fought and rolled back until once again young people will know that there is something larger to worship and contemplate than tennis shoes and gadgetry.
      We shall continue to endorse the ongoing movement to eliminate public schools, through the establishment of private and/or traditionalist faith-based schools.  Therefore we pledge to take active measures during the remaining days of our lives, to limit without abortion, the number of unfathered babies, and to direct, to the extent possible, all men and women to the stability imposed by self-sufficiency, marriage,  and the presence of a positive masculine player within the family stead.
 
     VII.          We observe the obvious when we see that no nation can long endure while its central government is spending three dollars for every two taken in through taxation by armed force.    We therefore believe that further central government spending should be curtailed  to such a point that no more than eighty percent (80%) be applied to present operational outlays of that central government, and the the remaining twenty percent (20%) be used to liquidate the debts owed to holders of  instruments of the national debt of the United Sates of America.    We should commit to establishing, as priority spending, the  renamed War Department and its military outlays  and those various programs to support veterans of military service.   All other expenditures should be reduced by twelve percent (12%).  There must be no deficit spending.

    VIII.          We are commited to the proposition that we should not raise our collective hand against  individuals involved with homosexuality.   We do, however,  also commit to the defense and furthering of the family unit as the foundation for American social structure.  We stand opposed to the notion that people who are involved in homosexual behaviour somehow have a special or different path in terms of civil rights.   There is no manner by which homosexuals can marry, in the truest sense of the word, although there are lawyers who can draw up contractual agreements concerning special relationships between adult, contractually empowered, citizens.
      We hold it as self evident that the depraved torture of a cat is the same as the depraved torture of a dog.   It is obvious under English Common Law that the unjustifiable killing or abuse of a normal person is a crime as might be prescribed by such law.   The unjustifiable killing or abuse of a homosexual is the same crime, there is no difference, and therefore there is no justification for establishing such a crime as a "hate crime" or any special category of crime.   Therefore we shall work to disestablish laws that have been passed to placate interest groups and that tend to elevate their grievances to a level that exceeds the intent of The Common Law.

      IX.         We vigourously reject the notion that we must participate in broad nationwide plans for correct organisation and development.  Project 21, the Kyoto Treaty, the United Nations Agreement on Firearms, and similar initiatives are all violations of the national integrity and sovereignty of the United States of America.  Americans must be aware that Treaties, properly executed and approved by a two-thirds (2/3rds) vote in the Senate of the Congrefs of the United States of America take precendence over and supercede any Constitutional argument or position which contradicts the purpose or intent of said treaty.  There fore it is critically important to oppose and defeat such initiatives and treaties.
       In keeping with this commitment to defend the unique individual nature of America among the other nations of this particular planetary Creation by Providence, we shall also resist until final victory any notion that would permit foreign judicial precedent or finding to be indirectly or directly cited as a justification for a decision made by any court that is organised under the authourity of the central government of the United States of America.  We further urge that the several Sovereign States also deign and require the same conditions apply to the decisions of their local and State courts, civil and criminal.

     X.          We finally commit to the disassembly of the bureaucratic organisation of the central government's bureaucracy.   We will study and find an end to such intrusion that might include, but certainly not be limited to the following entities that we sincerely believe are anti-Constitutional and therefore in continual violation of our Rights, our execution of our Sacred Responsibilities, and our Fundamental Liberties.
                       Social Security (to be privatised), Supplemental Security Income, Social Security Disability, Medicare (to be privatised), Federal Emergency Management Agency, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives division of the Department of Justice, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, much of the Department of State,  the Deparment of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, the Department of Labour, Department of Veterans' Affairs, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, much of the Department of the Interior, much of the Department of Agriculture, along with numerous commission, agencies, and offices without Constitutional Portfolio.    (All Veterans to be assigned to continuing interest sections of their respective Battle Group...United States Army, United States Air Force, United States Navy and Marines, United States Coast Guard. People take care of their own better.)


     This is a very basic, pacific, Manifesto of Normalcy.   It is a path to fiscal sanity.  It shows a new road to fraternity and unity among Americans, and it eliminates the satanic seduction of socialism and collectivism.   For the next week, El Gringo Viejo will go over this "credo" for various fluffings and abbreviation where possible.  Anyone is free to print it, as all OROGs are part owners in fact of this particular Voice in the Wilderness that actually is heard by a surprising number of folks.   I retire for a moment from the field of battle to strip away my bloodied armour and to rest my mount.
El Gringo Viejo
 
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